I hadn’t seen that, but you’re right that that sentence is wrong. “Probability” should have been replaced with “frequency” or something. A prior on a probability would be a set of probabilities of probabilities, and would soon lead to infinite regress.
I hadn’t seen that, but you’re right that that sentence is wrong. “Probability” should have been replaced with “frequency” or something. A prior on a probability would be a set of probabilities of probabilities, and would soon lead to infinite regress.
only if you keep specifying hyper-priors, which there is no reason to do
Exactly. There’s no point in the first meta-prior either.